School of thought
This female Tyrannochromis, shepherding her tiny fry, represents just one of perhaps 1,000 endemic cichlid species in Lake Malawi. In this 580km-long freshwater lake in East Africa, new species have evolved at an astonishing rate over the past million years or so. Photographer Michael Patrick O’Neill documented its biodiversity and the lives of the people who eke out a living from its waters.
Island life
Likoma, the larger of the two main (though still small) Malawian islands in the lake, is home to scattered communities of largely subsistence fishers.
